Forza Italia has a duty to go on says Tajani

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 12 - Forza Italia (FI), the centre-right party founded by Silvio Berlusconi shortly before the first of his four terms as premier in 1994 and called after Italians rallying cry for their national soccer team, has a duty to go on after its only leader died aged 86 Monday, his long-time No 2 Antonio Tajani, deputy premier, foreign minister and former European Parliament president, said.
    "We have a duty, as Forza Italia, to go ahead, even though we are wounded," said the FI national coordinator, speaking in Washington shortly before heading back early to Italy for the funeral of his mentor and friend Wednesday.
    "We will do so still under his moral and spiritual leadership and we will continue to work in the path marked out by him.
    "Destiny has put me here today, in the United States, at Arlington cemetery, a place that sums up Silvio Berlusconi's human and political career, a place that testifies to the value of freedom". (ANSA).